The Original 81 wrote:Anyone see JackAzz Adande's dumb*** question? Kobe straight belittled him, are you serious with that?

Yes, I saw it. My favorite part of this post though is that nickname, all this time just calling him J.A. Adande when we could have been using that awesome and fitting nickname. Yet another LA reporter that doesn't even like the Lakers and is mostly negative.

One of my favorite nicknames. JackAzz actually blocked me on twitter after calling him that when I responded to his typical garbage articles he tweeted.

"Let me say one more thing about Kobe. He will be the best player in the history of the game. If he keeps doing what he's doing, there is no stopping him. He is that good." - Shaquille O'Neal in his autobiography, "Shaq Talks Back"

Sure does help when you have guys out there that demand attention......... Bryant is still one of the deadliest players 1 on 1 with space................

I suspect these numbers will continue as well......maybe not quite as high but with the additional space and teams struggling to give attention to him spacing wise he will have numbers worthy of MVP talk..... no doubt in my mind, especially once the TO rate comes down a bit for him which I think it will.....especially if they go the Jackson route and bring back a familiar offense to the scene again.

Just got to get winning now....... need more than Bryant playing at a high level to win in todays NBA.

"If the wolf is the strength of the pack, the pack is the strength of the wolf"

he is playing on a very high level right now. absolutely great and if he was lebron james the espn crew would have sucked ride his..... but the fact that he is not no one cares really of the great numbers he puts up. that s a shame because right now i think kobe plays a mvp caliber season so far. keep it up kobe

A big reason he's shooting such a high percentage is he's no longer having to shoot a many bail out shots. Before he would shoot a crap load of them. And his shots election has been much better. Except for one or two heat checks I didn't recall too many bad shots.

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To Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge, the key factor in the decision had to be state of mind of Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.

“I don’t know what to say -- if Kobe isn’t happy, then that’s tough,” Aldridge said. “I have been getting word that he wasn’t happy with how things were going, and if he’s not happy, then your chances there are pretty slim -- as we saw with Shaq. … Everybody talks around the league, and there was talk that he wasn’t happy. “

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The fact that Kobe is playing this well now that he's paired with Dwight Howard and two other all-stars is a great validation of what we've been saying for years: Kobe made his teammates better than people recognized, just by being an outstanding player.

Of course, it's early, so we'll still have to wait and see how this trend plays out over a larger sample size.